The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

There’s no point in believing in things that exist.

I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all.

The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.

God will give to you what He knows will flow through you.

You managed not to get eaten then?

You can't argue with popularity. Well, you could, but you'd be wrong!

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.